I wanna be in your eye like a eyelash
I wanna be on your apps like a iPad
I wanna be on your map like a island
Baby, you're broke, but I'm not and I'll finance

I liked this song as soon as I heard it due to the iPad lyric. bladee loves being hyper specific in his love songs.

More recently, I followed porceraly on Instagram. She has a bunch of acoustic & piano covers of bladee and similar artists and the covers have helped me appreciate the lyrics a lot more. The lyrics in her eyelash cover come off so sweetly (although, per her caption on the original Instagram, it is funny that Bladee is calling this person broke).

As mentioned in other posts on this site, I love Malibu. When she released her album, Vanities, someone made a tweet comparing it to the Halo OST. That was probably meant to be derogatory but I thought it was a fair assessment of the album, which I enjoyed but I felt that it lacked the emotional resonance that most of her United In Flames mixes have.

Anyway! Malibu has a Vanities remix album coming out on November 6th and this Oklou remix has the resonance I was looking for. Sonically, all elements feel less obscured while preserving Malibu’s general “abyss-dwelling” nature. Very excited for the rest of this remix album.

This song has been out for several years. It's one of Bladee's best songs. I keep revisiting it for several reasons:

1. The opening line, "There's levels to everything — Avicii" has lived rent-free in my head for years. He's eulogizing the late Swedish artist but is sort of... annoying about it? I didn't realize that's how Avcii is pronounced.

2. The video is amazing and bizarre. Did Bladee get a soundstage for this? Was he inspired at all by Synecdoche, New York?

3. egobaby is Bladee at his most woefully poetic:

   In my heart, in my arms, be forever, baby
   Eons at a time never die, never die forever
   I'm in your mind if you think about me sometimes, baby

   He’s trying to kill his ego, connect to someone he’s lost, and is having a mental break about it (or at least that’s how I interpret the laughing at the end of the track.)

Blown away by the textures and layers on this one. Reminds me of some of Steve Hauschildt's work but a touch more expansive somehow. I found this in the latest United In Flames which I just adore and I could include every single song these mixes feature on this site.

It sounds like 'Loving you is easy but they boosted the bass'

I’m late to Ninajirachi but the above lyric has been rattling around my head for the better part of the week. I didn’t know or care about the Porter Robinson song it references but I’ve never had a lyric so quickly take mentally take me to searching YouTube for nightcore remixes and chopped and screwed edits and trawling soundcloud for funny versions of songs I love.

I view iPod Touch as a spiritual successor to Kero Kero Bonito's I Heard A Song. Both are about having a banger stuck in your head that you're trying so hard to get out.

BA stands for Bernard Arnault. Pharrell produced it, obviously. I love noticing a good LVMH tie-in. I wonder how BA feels about this.

edit: I noticed Pitchfork gave this album a 3.3 and cited the brand tie-ins for a part of its corniness. I'm a sucker for mid Pharrell production. While not officially credited on the track, I blame Pharrell for this Nigo ft. A$AP Rocky song from a couple years back. It's also kinda mid. (The first line is "Humanmade on me like P!!" and Pharrell's in the music video!)

Won’t hit your phone
I’m on DND
I’m plotting

not a lot of songs from the POV of a typeface

Neither the past, the present, or future matter to me.
What matters to me is love, art, and money.

is headache’s prose a little on the nose? yes. the 16-bit, crunched synth line at around 1:22 more than makes up for it. this song propels itself forward like a bullet train, intensity that goes in a smooth straight line

i first found this song in Susumu Yokota’s excellent Leaf Compilation and it has always struck me as a song that would be great to sweep your floor to

It’s funny to consider what Drake will be like when he's 60. He has to retire from music for his own sake. He can’t keep writing lyrics like:

I didn’t say that you’re the most selfish person alive
I just said you better hope she doesn’t die

Musically, I am am obsessed with what he’s doing here. Masterful sample usage and the core synth loop makes me bounce.

i've had a lot of useful contemplation to this song

there's something about the way she sings

Don’t make me bad
You know I’m not like that
Forget me not
I've not forgotten you
Not yet

that i find so chilling. thank you for reverb.

i laughed the first time I read Buttechno. the string samples remind me of Air - Modular mix but the breakbeats are pure dancey

you're sinking very deep into a plushy chair. eyes are heavy

Learned about this album due to its recent reissue. Music for three pregnant women is a striking title! I'm a sucker for music that features water. Hypnotic loops and the whole thing is a little house-y

unrequited love at the Stonestown Galleria

sleep paralysis music

i love the second verse

I'm soaking beans on the side
Chopping tomatoes
While you wash the rice
You sing along to your favourite songs
But you don't know the words
So you make up your own
I'm feeling sexy tonight
I got my Kikos on, and my hair is—
Somewhere in my smile I know
I'll never find no other lover

h/t Chris for informing me of the Jockstrap song it draws from.

there's no oxygen and earth is drifting further away